Self-touch: Contact durations and point of touch of spontaneous facial self-touches differ depending on cognitive and emotional load.
Every human being spontaneously touches its eyes, cheeks, chin and mouth manifold every day. These spontaneous facial self-touches (sFST) are elicited with little or no awareness and are distinct from gestures and instrumental acts. Self-touch frequency has been shown to be influenced by negative af...
Main Authors: | Stephanie Margarete Mueller, Sven Martin, Martin Grunwald |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2019-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213677 |
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